{
  "id": "shame.emotional",
  "term": "shame",
  "sense": "emotional",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "human-experience",
  "domain": "emotional",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a model of how one is modelled, reporting proximity to a wall",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "model.representation",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "feedback.communication",
      "wall.range-end",
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "report.information"
    ],
    "interaction": "A self-model receives feedback about a parameter's position relative to a wall and generates a report on how that self is modelled, forming the basis of the experience.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "self-modelling of positioning",
      "relational awareness of limits",
      "reported self-proximity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A child flinches at the school assembly after misspelling 'syzygy' in front of 217 students and teachers.",
      "domain": "education"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2019 Boeing 737 MAX grounding followed pilot reports of automated systems overriding manual inputs during ascent.",
      "domain": "aviation"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the Ultimatum Game at University College London, responders rejected 62% of unfair offers below £3 in £10 trials.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "pride.state",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "Pride signals distance from a wall; shame signals proximity."
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "shame"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'report.information' as constitutive, since the definition explicitly involves a report. All other declared components are necessary to support the representation, reflexivity, feedback, and bou"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shame.emotional"
}